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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

This white paper provides a detailed view of the comparable costs of running various workloads on-premises and in the AWS Cloud and offers guidance on how to work out an apples-to-apples comparison of the TCO of running web applications in the AWS Cloud versus running them on-premises.Below are some highlights of the Web Applications white paper.

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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 Improved Architecture In order to address the limitations of our initial architecture, we proceeded to make some optimizations.

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ABAC on SpiceDB: Enabling Netflix’s Complex Identity Types

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix Modeling Challenges Before Caveats SpiceDB, being a Relationship Based Access Control (ReBAC) system, expected authorization checks to be performed against the existence of a specific relationship between objects. This is a Caveated SpiceDB relationship. Users fit this model — they have a single user ID to describe who they are.

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An Introduction to MySQL Replication: Exploring Different Types of MySQL Replication Solutions

Percona

Perform routine maintenance and backups to ensure data integrity. Advantages There are many advantages of MySQL replication, but a few highlights include the enhancement of scalability by allowing read-intensive workloads to be distributed across multiple replicas, offloading a primary database server, and improving overall performance.

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Is It a Read Intensive or a Write Intensive Workload?

Percona

Because recognizing if the workload is read intensive or write intensive will impact your hardware choices, database configuration as well as what techniques you can apply for performance optimization and scalability. While our white paper Performance at Scale could provide useful insight if you are at the planning or review stage.